Posted on May 2, 2017
A thank you from Bend the Arc, Indigenous Environmental Action and Planned Parenthood
Each month, CREDO members vote for how we distribute our funding to three amazing organizations fighting for progressive causes. Those small actions add up – with one click, you can dedicate resources to help fund the resistance against Trump, prevent harmful pipeline development and defend access to reproductive health care. In April, over 80,000 CREDO members did just that. They voted in our donations election and helped us distribute our monthly donation to Bend the Arc, Indigenous Environmental Network and Planned Parenthood.
These donations are made possible by thousands of CREDO customers and the revenue they generate by using our services. Their distribution depends entirely on the votes of CREDO members like you. And for that, our April grant recipients thank you.
Bend the Arc
“Thank you to CREDO members for your commitment to justice! Bend the Arc Jewish Action is proud to partner with CREDO Action to turn up the volume of the Jewish community’s voice for a more just, fair and compassionate America, from the streets to the halls of power.” To learn more, visit bendthearc.us.
Posted on May 1, 2017
200,000 march in Washington for climate justice: Our favorite protest signs
On April 29, hundreds of thousands of people poured into streets around the world to march against Donald Trump’s dangerous climate denial agenda and for immediate action to solve the climate crisis. Thousands of CREDO members were there proudly standing shoulder-to-shoulder with our allies in the climate justice movement.
As the Earth experiences another “hottest year on record” and the highest levels of CO2 in the atmosphere in 3 million years, the Trump administration continues in full climate denial mode, removing all climate science information from the EPA’s website while his fossil fuel cabinet continues to dismantle environmental regulations that will wreak havoc on the planet.
In Washington, D.C., where temperatures fittingly hit near-record highs, CREDO members joined 200,000 marchers. Activists marched and spoke out against Trump’s exploitation of public lands and waters for fossil fuel drilling and his attacks on the environment, clean air and water, and indigenous people already feeling the effects of climate change.
We caught up with some of our members and other activists and would like to share some of the best moments and signs we saw at the People’s Climate March in Washington, D.C.
Posted on May 1, 2017
Vote for these great progressive groups in May
CREDO Mobile lets its members decide how to divide our monthly donation to three progressive nonprofit groups every month. This May, we’re featuring three great organizations pushing back against Trump and fighting for democracy and civil liberties, women’s rights and peace. This month you can vote for Demand Progress Action, UltraViolet and Win Without War. Learn more about their important work, and then cast your vote one, two or all three by May 31.
Demand Progress Action
Demand Progress Action is a 2 million member strong progressive grassroots organization dedicated to fighting for internet freedom, open government and eliminating the influence of big money in politics.
Posted on April 21, 2017
4 ways you can fight back against the attacks on the environment
Every day it seems like there’s a new, dangerous attack on the environment by the Trump administration: the nomination of longtime fossil fuel industry ally, Scott Pruitt, to lead the EPA; the pick of Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson to head the State Department; and Donald Trump’s recent executive orders to roll back President Obama’s Clean Power Plan and restart construction on the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines.
And we know these are just the tip of the iceberg. Trump has pledged to dismantle decades of long-standing regulations that keep our air and water clean and our food safe.
We can fight back. With Earth Day fast approaching, we’d like to share four ways you can join the fight and stand up to the attacks.
Posted on April 18, 2017
VIDEO: United We Dream visits CREDO headquarters
Cristina Jiménez and Adrian Reyna, executive director and director of membership and technology strategies at United We Dream, visited CREDO headquarters on Tuesday, April 18 to give us update on the fight against Trump’s attacks on immigrant youth and families.
If you missed the live broadcast, check out the video below.
LIVE NOW: United We Dream at CREDO headquartersCREDO welcomes Cristina Jiménez, Executive Director of United We Dream, for an update on the fight against Trump’s attacks on immigrant youth and families.
Posted by CREDO Mobile on Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Posted on April 12, 2017
Get Ready for the People’s Climate March: Here Are your Protest Posters
During the first months of the Trump presidency, the resistance to his agenda has been incredibly inspiring. Millions of people across the country – including many who have never engaged in activism before – have been raising their voices together to hold Trump accountable.
If you’re like many of us here at CREDO, you’ve also been taking to the streets and speaking out in your community at rallies and marches. From the Women’s March on Washington, to the dozens of rallies held at airports to oppose Donald Trump’s Muslim ban, to the Women’s Strike on International Women’s Day, CREDO members and activists have come together, organized and led the resistance against Trump’s hate.
With each march and rally, we’ve been inspired by the ingenuity, wit and passion our fellow marchers have shown in the signs they make and carry with them. We’ve also gotten some great feedback on the signs we created for the Women’s March and seen you proudly carrying them as far away as the Women’s March in Switzerland.
So, now we’ve designed a series of climate justice posters for the People’s Climate March on April 29 in Washington, D.C. and in cities across the country. To mark the 100th day of Trump’s presidency, while he continues to stack his administration with climate deniers and allies of the fossil fuel industry, hundreds of thousands of people will fill the streets to protest Trump’s dangerous actions regarding the EPA, climate and environment, and show that our climate movement is bigger than ever before.
We’d love your feedback on these posters and to see them spread far and wide. So please download, share and print and keep standing strong with support from all of us here at CREDO. Enjoy and see you at the next march!
Download Your Free Poster
Download Water Is Life (PDF) – 11×17 in.
Download Water Is Life (PDF) – 18×24 in.
Posted on April 7, 2017
How to Protect Your Data at the Border
Since the inauguration of Donald Trump, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents have been demanding that travelers hand over the passwords to their mobile devices at the border for agents to search and collect data at an alarming rate.1
CBP believes that your Fourth Amendment rights don’t apply at the border and claims it has the right to search, confiscate and download personal data from your phone without a warrant or probable cause, regardless of your citizenship or immigration status. A 2017 investigation by NBC News of searches of American citizens at the border found that in the vast majority of cases reviewed 23 out of 25 Muslim passengers were singled out.2
Posted on April 6, 2017
New video: CREDO stands with Muslim Advocates against Trump’s bigotry
During the campaign and since he’s entered the White House, Donald Trump has waged an extremist war against the Muslim community like we’ve never seen before. He’s called for a “total and complete shutdown” of Muslims entering the country, appointed anti-Muslim bigots to serve in the White House and signed two executive orders banning Muslims from entering the country.
At the same time, his tidal wave of bigotry has spilled into the streets and into the mainstream. Hate crimes against Muslims have risen 67 percent, and the number of anti-Muslim groups has tripled since the election.
This March, we welcomed Muslim Advocates Public Advocacy Director Scott Simpson and Deputy Director Naheed Qureshi to CREDO headquarters for a conversation about the reality of discrimination against Muslims and other minority communities in the Trump era.
Posted on April 6, 2017
10 Simple Steps to a Smaller Carbon Footprint
By now, everyone outside the Trump administration and right-wing circles knows carbon pollution is a catastrophic problem for our planet. Climate change is heating the planet, extinguishing species and threatening our food supply.
To stop runaway climate change, we will ultimately need politicians to enact policies requiring that fossil fuels be left in the ground. While we fight for those policies, there are also actions we can take as individuals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Here are 10 easy things you can do to reduce your carbon footprint and help fight climate change.
1. Change your lightbulbs. A couple years ago, we were replacing our incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent lightbulbs. Now we’re replacing our CFLs with LEDs, which use 40 percent less energy than CFLs, provide better-quality light and last for decades when used a few hours a day. You can reduce your carbon footprint by six tons per year just by installing LEDs in your home.1
